I am banned

[teddy_radiator]

I just got home from a songwriter's guild meeting and went to log into my deviantArt and was told I was banned permanently. Apparently, some of the Marquise art I'd posted was considered kiddie porn!

I am so gutted I'm crying like a baby. I just can't believe all that hard work of putting together and amassing all the lovely pieces of art are gone now. And I'd just bought a 2-year membership, and I think that has been forfeited as well.

I am pig sick. I mean, I feel physically ill.

Caveat, people. If you find art you love, download it. Don't put it on deviantArt. I have lost hundreds of favourites, including a beautiful collection of Sempraseverus. I can start over, but I don't have the heart.

I have written to deviantArt and begged them to reconsider, but it'll just be my luck they'll tell me where to stick it.

So, I guess this will be my new home away from home. I will miss my deviantArt friends so badly, though. Maybe I can get an assumed name....

TR

Comments

[karelia.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's awful!!! I'm so sorry; I can't even begin to imagine how you feel!

Do you know that TPP accepts art? We usually ask artists to link to photobucket or some such archive since art can take a lot of space, but we're happy to host it. And you can rate it NC17 if appropriate so non-members can't see it.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Lady, thank you for that. I wasn't even aware these were considered porn! I mean, they are drawings. I wanted to say, "Have you looked at some of the photos in your fetish category? My god, it's as hard core as you can get!" But of course, I have to do a little boot licking.

I just had a beautiful site over there, and it's all gone, and if they won't let me back in (and it says permanently, I guess I'll just have to figure out somewhere else. I am very upset that I'm only one month into a 24 month premium membership, and you can bet they won't return that either.

I just feel ill about it. Mostly, because I collaborated with Sempraseverus, and I will miss her so much I feel like I'm being banned from seeing my best friend.

[karelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you on that. Frankly, if they refuse to communicate with you or, worse, refuse to reimburse you, then it becomes a serious issue and one that needs to be addressed via the fandom. Deviantart is benefitting greatly from HP fans in general, and they haven't been overly reasonable in the recent past (trying to get them to delete a plagiarized story was a job and a half).

If you don't get anywhere with them to at the very least be reimbursed the premium membership, please do let me know, and I'll ask around if others have had similar trouble in the past. If deviantart provide a poor service, then the fandom needs to know.

Yes, I would feel ill about it, too. To ban an account like that just isn't fair. ::gentle hugs::